Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Interpreting Xuanzang's travelogue

If you are regular follower of the blog then you already know this part of the history but it is important to reiterate the current knowledge about the site and how we arrived at that using Xuanzang’s travelogue. He has left us a detailed description about the sequence of structures, their locations and its contributors.

RECREATING THE STRUCTURE AS SEEN BY XUANZANG
Interpretation of “Travel” By, Thomas watters (“Travel” is short name for his book, “Accounts of western nations”)


Rough sketch 1- Based on “Travels”


 “Life” by Beal (“Life” is short name of Xuanzang’s Biography written by Hwui Li)



Rough sketch 2- based on “Life”

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